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Robert Wright ~ Articles [selected]
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"Generation Lie: When the
Occupy Movement's battle
lines were drawn, it wasn't
just the 99 per cent against
the one. Another popular
matchup was that of the baby
boomers versus 'the screwed
generation.' The only trouble
with that one? It's complete
fiction, says Robert Wright,
who knocks down some
myths about the evil
boomers, too." Ottawa Citizen
(3 December, 2011), B1-B3.
"Game Changer or Just Games? The modus operandi of Occupy Wall Street is a mélange of Great Depression, Civil Rights and Vietnam-era social protest, leavened by a Woodstock carnival atmosphere and powered by Arab Spring-styled social media. But is it really, as its fervent supporters insist, a revolution?” Ottawa Citizen (15 October 2011).
“Northern Ice: Jean Chrétien and the Failure of Constructive Engagement in Cuba" in Robert Wright and Lana Wylie, eds., Our Place in the Sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era (July 2009).
"From Liberalism to Nationalism: Peter C. Newman's Discovery of Canada" in Robert Rutherdale and Magda Fahrni, eds., Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-1975 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007).
"Historical Underdosing: Pop Demography and the Crisis in Canadian History" Canadian Historical Review 81:4 (December 2000).
"The Way We Were? History as Infotainment in the Age of History Television" in Peter Farrugia, ed., The River of History: Trans-national and Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on the Immanence of the Past (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005).
"Gimme Shelter: Cultural Protectionism and the Recording Industry in Canada" Cultural Studies 5:3 (October 1991).
"Music and Canadian Studies" Journal of Canadian Studies 25:3 (Summer 1990).
"Game Changer or Just Games? The modus operandi of Occupy Wall Street is a mélange of Great Depression, Civil Rights and Vietnam-era social protest, leavened by a Woodstock carnival atmosphere and powered by Arab Spring-styled social media. But is it really, as its fervent supporters insist, a revolution?” Ottawa Citizen (15 October 2011).
“Northern Ice: Jean Chrétien and the Failure of Constructive Engagement in Cuba" in Robert Wright and Lana Wylie, eds., Our Place in the Sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era (July 2009).
"From Liberalism to Nationalism: Peter C. Newman's Discovery of Canada" in Robert Rutherdale and Magda Fahrni, eds., Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-1975 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007).
"Historical Underdosing: Pop Demography and the Crisis in Canadian History" Canadian Historical Review 81:4 (December 2000).
"The Way We Were? History as Infotainment in the Age of History Television" in Peter Farrugia, ed., The River of History: Trans-national and Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on the Immanence of the Past (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005).
"Gimme Shelter: Cultural Protectionism and the Recording Industry in Canada" Cultural Studies 5:3 (October 1991).
"Music and Canadian Studies" Journal of Canadian Studies 25:3 (Summer 1990).
"Our woman in Tehran: The
'unflappable' Laverna
Dollimore's role in the Iran
hostage crisis was just a
chapter in her remarkable
career, writes Robert Wright."
Ottawa Citizen (5 November
2011), B4.
"Soulmates: Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and Cuban President Fidel Castro were friends who enjoyed each other's company and intellect. But were they subjects of a joint assassination plot? Author Robert Wright explores the conspiracy theory." Ottawa Citizen (12 January 2008).
“El Comandante: In a new memoir, Fidel Castro casts himself as the ‘Great Clockmaker’ – able to leave the Cuban political stage having put the Revolution in motion.” Ottawa Citizen (29 December 2007).
"Halfway to Havana" National Post (29 April 2007).
“The Enigmatic El Comandante: The man who has ruled over Cuba for almost half a century, Robert Wright says, cultivated his own mystique.” Globe and Mail (12 August 2006).
"I'd Sell You Suicide: Pop Music and Moral Panic in the Age of Marilyn Manson" Popular Music 19:3 (Autumn, 2000).
"Dream, Comfort, Memory, Despair: Canadian Popular Musicians and the Dilemma of Nationalism, 1968-72" Journal of Canadian Studies 22:4 (Winter 1987-8). Reprinted in Beverly Diamond and Robert Witmer, eds., Canadian Music: Issues and Identity (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1994); reprinted in Daniel J. Robinson, ed., Communication History in Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004).
"A New Spirituality: The Impact of Mahatma Gandhi and Toyohiko Kagawa on the Canadian Protestant Churches in the 1920s and the 1930s" Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 32 (April 1990).
"History's Heavy Attrition: Literature, Historical Consciousness and the Impact of Vietnam" Canadian Review of American Studies 17 (Fall, 1986).
"Soulmates: Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and Cuban President Fidel Castro were friends who enjoyed each other's company and intellect. But were they subjects of a joint assassination plot? Author Robert Wright explores the conspiracy theory." Ottawa Citizen (12 January 2008).
“El Comandante: In a new memoir, Fidel Castro casts himself as the ‘Great Clockmaker’ – able to leave the Cuban political stage having put the Revolution in motion.” Ottawa Citizen (29 December 2007).
"Halfway to Havana" National Post (29 April 2007).
“The Enigmatic El Comandante: The man who has ruled over Cuba for almost half a century, Robert Wright says, cultivated his own mystique.” Globe and Mail (12 August 2006).
"I'd Sell You Suicide: Pop Music and Moral Panic in the Age of Marilyn Manson" Popular Music 19:3 (Autumn, 2000).
"Dream, Comfort, Memory, Despair: Canadian Popular Musicians and the Dilemma of Nationalism, 1968-72" Journal of Canadian Studies 22:4 (Winter 1987-8). Reprinted in Beverly Diamond and Robert Witmer, eds., Canadian Music: Issues and Identity (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1994); reprinted in Daniel J. Robinson, ed., Communication History in Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004).
"A New Spirituality: The Impact of Mahatma Gandhi and Toyohiko Kagawa on the Canadian Protestant Churches in the 1920s and the 1930s" Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 32 (April 1990).
"History's Heavy Attrition: Literature, Historical Consciousness and the Impact of Vietnam" Canadian Review of American Studies 17 (Fall, 1986).